Search - Year of Wonders

This is a very engrossing story told in amazing detail. I highly recommend the book but be warned - it is one horrific tragedy after another, and the author spares none of the gory details.

Fascinating, realistic portrayal of life in an English village during the plague. Wonderful read and very well written & researched.

A beautifully written story of a young woman surviving through a year when the plague killed most of her friends and family.
It's based on a true story - the author read of a small village in England where the people decided to quarantine themselves to avoid spreding the disease to neighboring towns and villages. She built the character and other details around this framework.
I couldn't stop reading until I had fnished the book!

In spite of Brooks beautiful prose Years of Wonder is a hard read. It
couldn't help but be with the plague as the central topic.

I enjoyed this book ... after the first 50 pages. I don't know why it took so long to get into the story but it was a nice read once I did.

I was very disappointed in this book. I understood the sadness and pain of that time but I felt the book was unnecessarily crude.